Category: Entrepreneurial Learning

Martin Lackéus: Entrepreneurial methods – what, why, how, why not?

In the following video playlist Martin tries to expand his insights on entrepreneurial methods, primarily developed(it seems) from his co-authored paper; "Comparing effectuation to discovery-driven planning, prescriptive entrepreneurship, business planning, lean startup, and design thinking" The major suggestion of the paper is to stress on the complimentary use value of existing methods. Rather than using … Continue reading Martin Lackéus: Entrepreneurial methods – what, why, how, why not?

2 perspectives to approach failures and mistakes

Failures are prototypes of experience: They are powerful reference point which can act as a tool for decision making and adjustment.  They are a special kind of tacit knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. Hyper correction effect: This refers to the finding that … Continue reading 2 perspectives to approach failures and mistakes

My thoughts on Entrepreneurial Expertise: Twitter Thread

https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315693615729926145?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315695183191666688?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315696740960411649?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315697999234789376?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315701764142755840?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315706522735800320?s=20 The Feedback Loop Tangent https://twitter.com/AndyPena/status/1315741156307881985?s=20 https://twitter.com/CarlessDavid/status/1315878515560964096?s=20 https://twitter.com/viccurtis/status/1315981149588656129?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315892068170911744?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315893403880620033?s=20 https://twitter.com/bartderre/status/1315911064677163010?s=20 https://twitter.com/mlackeus/status/1316036301775400968?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1315993432733540352?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1316000776875991042?s=20

Value Lab: A toolkit proposed as an alternative to Lean Startup.

Value Lab is a research-based tool for Entrepreneurship decision making . It offers a scientific, experiment-oriented, practical approach to value creation. It is designed to be used in the classroom, in startup training or coaching, strategy consulting and other such settings. Value Lab provides the scaffolding for startups and companies to develop their own, unique strategy. https://twitter.com/teppofelin/status/1306641223751405568 https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1303694915701018626

Immigrants and Socio-economic status: Thread

When we talk about immigrants I really like to dig one more layer with things like; # Socio-economic status. # Familial socialism as a unit of observation.# Cultural background. Eg. Most Indian founders are higher caste, # Enormous familial scaffolding(kind of powerful Familial socialism),etc. https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1297333541546520576?s=20 While US elites are romanticizing about Immigrants, they practically pay … Continue reading Immigrants and Socio-economic status: Thread

Y-Combinator Series A Guide for entrepreneurs

Over the last two years YC companies have raised 190 Series A’s and over $2B of capital. From this process, YC accumulated information about every one of those rounds while working with founders all the way to the close. They have previously published some of what they learned, like: Standard and Clean Series A Term … Continue reading Y-Combinator Series A Guide for entrepreneurs

2 Studies: Prior Knowledge in reading / Prior Success in venture capital.

One of my greatest interest in learning-science is to find connections and parallels between disciplines like academia, sports , entrepreneurship etc. I recently came across following two studies, one on reading and other on venture capital, both of which demonstrates effects of accumulated advantage and disadvantage in two different disciplines. Accumulated advantage and disadvantage in … Continue reading 2 Studies: Prior Knowledge in reading / Prior Success in venture capital.

Research: Accelerator expertise and Entrepreneurship

https://twitter.com/kshtriya/status/1222242341291020288 This study "Accelerator expertise: Understanding the intermediary role of accelerators in the development of the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem" looked at the intermediary role of accelerators in the developing regional entrepreneurial ecosystem of Bangalore.Researchers Suresh Bhagavatula, Ketan Goswami and J. Robert Mitchell analyzed data from 54 interviews with accelerator graduates, accelerator managers, and other ecosystem … Continue reading Research: Accelerator expertise and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and fitness landscape.

A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity. This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions: Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations. Exploit the most out of a particular landscape. This … Continue reading Entrepreneurship and fitness landscape.

Research: Why entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?

According to the paper titled " Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurialchildren?": Kids whose parents were entrepreneurs are 60% more likely to become founders. By using data on adoptees, this paper shows that about 1/3 of the effect is nature, and 2/3 is from upbringing. It is also strongest from mother to daughter & from … Continue reading Research: Why entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?